Still Missing

by Chevy Stevens

You can be as happy as you’ve ever been in your life, and shit is still going to happen. But it doesn’t just happen. It knocks you sideways and crushes you into the ground, because you were stupid enough to believe in sunshine and roses.

just when I think I’ve got it figured out and neatly filed under fixed instead of fucked, turns out I’m still shattered, scattered, and battered.

I think people can be so crushed, so broken, that they’ll never be anything more than a fragment of a whole person.